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title="Hosea 13">◄</a> Hosea 14 <a href="../joel/1.htm" title="Joel 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/hosea/14.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">A Plea to Return to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Return, O Israel, to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God,</span><br /><span class="indent">for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Take with you words</span><br /><span class="indent">and return to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">say to him,</span><br /><span class="indent">“Take away all iniquity;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">accept what is good,</span><br /><span class="indent">and we will pay with bulls</span><br /><span class="indent">the vows<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint, Syriac pay the fruit">a</a></sup></span> of our lips.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Assyria shall not save us;</span><br /><span class="indent">we will not ride on horses;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’</span><br /><span class="indent">to the work of our hands.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">In you the orphan finds mercy.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will heal their apostasy;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will love them freely,</span><br /><span class="indent">for my anger has turned from them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will be like the dew to Israel;</span><br /><span class="indent">he shall blossom like the lily;</span><br /><span class="indent">he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">his shoots shall spread out;</span><br /><span class="indent">his beauty shall be like the olive,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his fragrance like Lebanon.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They shall return and dwell beneath my<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew his">b</a></sup></span> shadow;</span><br /><span class="indent">they shall flourish like the grain;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they shall blossom like the vine;</span><br /><span class="indent">their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?</span><br /><span class="indent">It is I who answer and look after you.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew him">c</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">I am like an evergreen cypress;</span><br /><span class="indent">from me comes your fruit.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;</span><br /><span class="indent">whoever is discerning, let him know them;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for the ways of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> are right,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the upright walk in them,</span><br /><span class="indent">but transgressors stumble in them.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Septuagint, Syriac <i><span class="catch-word">pay</span> the fruit</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Hebrew <i>his</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Hebrew <i>him</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a 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